Hypothetical if I could curate my own Radio Station (and I could sort per Spotify Playlists, except there's a lot of music of course not on Spotify, but YouTube might be a better option).
All Media Reviews
The media market is huge, thus the need for a media review market.
This is our little contribution to that field.
Friday, August 9, 2024
Music of the Year Radio
Thursday, April 18, 2024
MPAR Slideshow Chapter 3 2010-2014
2010
1/9/2010 Lehto & Wright - Children's Songs
2/24/2010 東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen] スポーツ (Sports)
3/2/2010 Dirt Poor Robins - The Last Days of Leviathan
3/8/2010 JazzkamikazeSupersonic Revolutions
3/9/2010 Emanuel and The Fear Listen
4/5/2010 Typhoon - Hunger and Thirst
4/6/2010 The Gloomcatcher - Slow Chorale
4/6/2010 The River Empires The River Empires (Epilogue)
4/13/2010 Judgement Day - Peacocks / Pink Monsters
4/20/2010 The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
5/1/2010 Timbre - Little Flowers
5/10/2010 Foals Total Life Forever
5/14/2010 Dead Letter Circus - This is the Warning
5/18/2010 Janelle MonáeThe ArchAndroid
5/31/2010 Anathema We're Here Because We're Here
6/2/2010 Bend Sinister - Spring Romance
7/27/2010 Menomena - Mines
7/27/2010 Timmy Sean Songs From & Inspired By Noisewater
8/3/2010 The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens
8/24/2010 Everything Everything - Man Alive
9/6/2010 Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
9/6/2010 Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
9/6/2010 Revere - Hey! Selim
9/14/2010 Light Chasers Cloud Cult Light Chasers
9/22/2010 22 Flux
10/12/2010 Sufjan StevensThe Age of Adz
10/18/2010 Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer and Anvil
10/25/2010 WarpaintThe Fool
2011
2/1/2011 Hotel of the Laughing TreeTerror and Everything After
2/7/2011 Stateless - Matilda
3/8/2011 Typhoon - A New Kind of House
4/25/2011 dredg - Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy
5/29/2011 Brice Plays Drums - I Laugh at Your Greener Pastures
6/14/2011 The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection
6/28/2011 Falling Up - Your Sparkling Death Cometh
6/20/2011 Battle Circus - Battle Circus
6/27/2011 *Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo
7/8/2011 Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Deaden the Fields
7/15/2011 Meniscus - War of Currents
7/25/2011 Mercies - Three Thousand Days
8/19/2011 Gotye - Making Mirrors
8/29/2011 Vows Kimbra Vows
9/26/2011 Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
10/4/2011 Bruce Peninsula - Open Flames
10/4/2011 Mutemath Odd Soul
10/11/2011 3The Ghost You Gave to Me
10/14/2011 Team MeTo the Treetops
11/7/2011 Jimmy Gnecco The Heart: X Edition
12/6/2011 Miracles of Modern Science - Dog Year
12/30/2011 House of Fools Versus the Beast
2012
1/13/2012 Forest Park - Forest Park
1/13/2012 Northern Abbey - Northern Abbey
1/30/2012 Pepe Deluxé Queen of the Wave
2/25/2012 British Theatre - EP
3/26/2012 Flying Colors - Flying Colors
3/27/2012 The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
4/16/2012 Anathema Weather Systems
4/24/2012 Bruce Peninsula - Of Songs
4/24/2012 Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Daffy's Elixir
5/1/2012 Ramona Falls Prophet
6/1/2012 GathererSo Be It
7/10/2012 Bend SinisterSmall Fame
8/16/2012 Brice Plays DrumsMan the Animal Cannon
8/18/2012 Mike Linden - Bubble & Squeak
8/20/2012 British Theatre - Dyed in the Wool Ghost
8/27/2012 Archive - With Us Until You're Dead
9/11/2012 Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft OrchestraTheatre Is Evil
10/15/2012 Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
10/23/2012 VuvuzelaThe Hollow Choir
11/27/2012 Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Mammoth Skin Pt. 1
2013
1/28/2013 Biffy Clyro - Opposites
1/29/2013 Local Natives Hummingbird
2/11/2013 Foals - Holy Fire
2/25/2013 Steven WilsonThe Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
3/5/2013 Cloud Cult Love
3/5/2013 Brooke Waggoner - Originator
4/2/2013 The Dear Hunter Migrant
4/2/2013 The Dear Hunter - The Migrations Annex
5/4/2013 Ours - Ballet the Boxer 1
5/20/2013 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
6/7/2013 The Red Paintings - The Revolution is Never Coming
7/30/2013 The Reign of KindoPlay With Fire
8/20/2013 Typhoon White Lighter
9/10/2013 Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady
10/7/2013 Revere - My Mirror / Your Target
11/19/2013 Dirt Poor Robins -The Raven Locks Act 1
2014
1/24/2014 Major Parkinson Twilight Cinema
1/31/2014 Dream the Electric Sleep Heretics
2/25/2014 The Family CrestBeneath the Brine
3/11/2014 Bend Sinister Animals
3/13/2014 Grimus Emergence
4/17/2014 Moron Police - Defenders of the Small Yard
4/22/2014 Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Mammoth Skin Pt. 2
5/12/2014 Archive - Axiom
6/4/2014 AnathemaDistant Satellites
6/9/2014 Fjokra - Thoughtsteps
6/10/2014 Umphrey's McGee - Similae Skin
7/15/2014 Nomia - Iron and Rust
7/29/14 sElf - Super.Fake.Nice
8/15/2014 KimbraThe Golden Echo
8/18/2014 Imogen HeapSparks
8/27/2014 Team MeBlind as Night
9/9/2014 The Tea Party The Ocean at the End
9/3/2014 The Mercury Tree Countenance
9/15/2014 iamthemorning - Belighted
9/19/2014 Markéta Irglová Muna
9/30/2014 Dirt Poor Robins - The Raven Locks Act 2
10/28/2014 Clone Clone
11/11/2014 Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies
11/17/2014 Nordic Giants - Build Seas, Dismantle Suns
12/25/2014 Gavin Castleton - Travelight
MPAR Slideshow Details 2005-2009
2005
2/1/2005 Through the Broken City Bend Sinister Through the Broken City
2/4/2005 God is an Astronaut - All Is Violent All Is Bright
2/7/2005 Karnivool - Themata
2/8/2005 People For Audio - And This Will Be Our Homecoming
2/14/2005 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
3/1/2005 The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
3/8/2005 Kaddisfly Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn
3/22/2005 The Decemberists - Picaresque
3/28/2005 Porcupine Tree Deadwing
4/25/2005 Klimt 1918 Dopoguerra
4/26/2005 The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse
4/26/2005 Time of OrchidsSarcast While
4/2005 Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - The Dust of Retreat
5/24/2005 Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
6/21/2005 dredg Catch Without Arms
6/27/2005 The Chap - Ham
6/2005 Cloud Cult - Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus
7/5/2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7/12/2005 The Ebb & Flow - Time to Echolocate
7/18/2005 Imogen Heap Speak for Yourself
8/23/2005 Greg Herriges - It Plays Me
8/23/2005 Neverending White Lights Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies
8/23/2005 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
9/13/2005 Sigur Ros - Takk...
9/19/2005 Oceansize Everyone Into Position
9/19/2005 Mew And the Glass Handed Kites
9/20/2005 Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
10/11/2005 Kiss Kiss - Kiss Kiss
10/10/2005 Pure Reason Revolution - Cautionary Tales for the Brave
12/5/2005 Lehto & Wright - The Thrashing Machine and Other Stories
2006
1/19/2006 MutemathMutemath
1/25/2006 東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen]大人 (Adult)
2/7/2006 Malajube - Optical illusion
2/25/2006 Anathallo - Floating World
3/7/2006 Mason Proper - There is a Moth in Your Chest
3/14/2006 Men Women and Children - Men Women and Children
3/21/2006 The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
3/21/2006 Opus Dai - Tierra Tragame
3/27/2006 Menomena - Under an Hour: Music for Modern Dance
4/10/2006 Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third
4/17/2006 Scott Mathews - Passing Stranger
4/21/2006 OSI - Free
5/2/2006 Tool - 10,000 Days
5/16/2006 Russian Circles Enter
5/21/2006 Gotye - Like Drawing Blood
5/22/2006 Archive - Lights
6/5/2006 Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
7/3/2006 MuseBlack Holes and Revelations
8/8/2006 Under the Influence of Giants - Under the Influence of Giants
9/12/2006 Kunek - Flight of the Flynns
9/12/2006 The Mars Volta - Amuptechture
9/26/2006 The Dear HunterAct I: The Lake South, the River North
10/2/2006 The Crane Wife The DecemberistsThe Crane Wife
10/14/2006 Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
10/18/2006 Kacica - Kacica
10/17/2006 Annuals - Be He Me
10/25/2006 Mutyumu - Mutyumu
11/7/2006 Fair to Midland - The Drawn and Quartered EP
2007
1/2/2007 Cavil at Rest - Orion Way
1/16/2007 The Apex Theory - Lightpost
1/23/2007 Menomena - Friend and Foe
2/6/2007 Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
2/6/2007 Kiss Kiss Reality vs. the Optimist
2/12/2007 Blackfield Blackfield II
2/21/2007 Sheena Ringo - 平成風俗 (Heisei fūzoku)
3/2/2007 Radical Face - Ghost
3/6/2007 House of FoolsLive and Learn
3/6/2007 Kaddisfly Set Sail the Prairie
3/26/2007 The Antlers - In the Attic of the Universe
3/31/2007 SilverchairYoung Modern
4/2/2007 Fields. Everything Last Winter
4/10/2007 The Meaning of 8 Cloud Cult The Meaning of 8
4/10/2007 The Apples in stereo New Magnetic Wonder
5/14/2007 Battles Mirrored
5/15/2007 People for Audio The New Ancients
5/22/2007 The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
6/1/2007 Janelle Monae - Metropolis: Suite 1 The Chase
6/4/2007 Biffy ClyroPuzzle
6/12/2007 Fair to MidlandFables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
6/13/2007 Pepe Deluxe - Spare Time Machine
6/18/2007 *Shels - Sea of a Dying Dhow
6/19/2007 The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
6/19/2007 Stateless - Stateless
7/10/2007 St. Vincent - Marry Me
7/17/2007 Strata - Strata Presents the End of the World
7/24/2007 ThreeThe End Is Begun
8/7/2007 The Receiving End of SirensThe Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
8/20/2007 Minus the BearPlanet of Ice
8/20/2007 The Reign of Kindo - The Reign of Kindo
8/21/2007 The New Pornographers - Challengers
9/6/2007 Centaur Rodeo - Tongues of Flame
9/11/2007 Jared Micah and Hats - T.C.H.T.O.B.
9/12/2007 Woven - Aftermath EP
9/18/2007 Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution
9/25/2007 Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
10/2/2007 The Most Serene Republic - Population
10/23/2007 Far-Less - A Toast to Bad Taste
10/30/2007 Neverending White LightsAct II: The Blood and the Life Eternal
10/2007 The Ebb and Flow - Attack & Decay
10/1/2007 Oceansize Frames
11/1/2007 100Ft Snowman - 100Ft Snowman
11/6/2007 Sigur Ros - Hvarf-Heim
12/31/2007 Distrails - Virginia Creeper
2008
1/22/2008 Black Mountain - In the Future
2/11/2008 Apes and Androids Blood Moon
3/24/2008 FoalsAntidotes
3/30/2008 KacicaMosaic
4/1/2008 Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Flight of the Knife
4/8/2008 Cloud Cult Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
4/15/2008 Ours Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
5/13/2008 The Myriad - With Arrows, With Poise
5/19/2008 Demians - Building an Empire
6/13/2008 Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Tiny Fragments
6/17/2008 Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer
5/19/2008 The Chap Mega Breakfast
8/11/2008 Late of the Pier Fantasy Black Channel
8/26/2008 The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody
8/0/2008 Opus Dai - Touch the Sun
8/2008 Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse
9/10/2008 Lehto & Wright - Between the Jigs and the Reels
9/11/2008 Adebisi Shank This Is the Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
9/13/2008 Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer
9/23/2008 The Age of Rockets - Hannah
9/23/2008 Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free
9/23/2008 Woven - Designer Codes
9/25/2008 夢中夢 [Mutyumu]イリヤ -Il y a-
10/7/2008 Annuals - Such Fun
10/7/2008 Margot and the Nuclear So and So'sAnimal!
10/7/2008 Margot and the Nuclear So and So'sNot Animal
10/21/2008 ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta! The Stiletto Formal ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta!
10/21/2008 Bend Sinister Stories of Brothers, Tales of Lovers
10/31/2008 Nomia - Nomia EP
11/7/2008 God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut
11/18/2008 AnathalloCanopy Glow
11/26/2008 Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
2009
1/18/2009 Sound & Shape - The Love Electric
1/20/2009 Umphrey's McGee - Mantis
2/2/2009 note. - my city of ghosts, stars and hours
2/3/2009 Shelter Red - Strike a Mortal Terror
2/10/2009 Malajube - Labyrinthes
2/17/2009 Sholi - Sholi
3/3/2009 The Antlers - Hospice
3/3/2009 Bruce Peninsula A Mountain Is a Mouth
3/9/2009 Pure Reason Revolution - Amor vincit omnia
3/10/2009 Greg Herriges - Telluric Currents
3/23/2009 Grammatics - Grammatics
3/24/2009 Falling Up - Fangs!
3/30/2009 Archive- Controlling Crowds
4/24/2009 Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
5/14/2009 maudlin of the Well - Part the 2nd
5/18/2009 My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances
6/9/2009 dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
6/21/2009 Grimus - Panikon
6/23/2009 The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
7/7/2009 Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
8/18/2009 As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take It With You
8/4/2009 Cale Parks - To Swift Mars
8/18/2009 Mutemath - Armistice
8/18/2009 Ramona Falls - Intuit
8/19/2009 Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away
10/6/2009 Brooke Waggoner - Go Easy Little Doves
10/7/2009 Murder By Death - Finch
10/26/2009 nosound - A Sense of Loss
10/26/2009 Oceansize - Home & Minor
11/2/2009 Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
11/9/2009 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
12/2009 Distrails - Dry Flies
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Kevin Gilbert THUD Tracks Videos
So I finished this series on my YouTube channel last week. Finished sharing the last video yesterday on Social Media.
And while time can tell how far it reaches, the numbers as of right now tell the story.
I'm pretty proud of this, having analyzed and given somewhat thoroughly every track in depth for Thud, an album I do love. I mean it is from Kevin Gilbert who is a super unknown name, but still people at least seek his music out on YouTube (even though most of it is not there right now).
I just feel like what James Bickers said about things going right under people's noses. Thud is a great record that a lot more people should know it, including so many of these other versions. But as of right now, they would have find a download somewhere or buy them from the Estate..or on ebay or discogs or whatever.
But they should. I dunno, there's not much more I can do. And I will look to do this again I think at the point the Shaming Multi-Disc comes out.
People want to sleep on brilliance and great content..their loss I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh and the View Count numbers are not correct as I have given evidence of how YouTube's new-ish algorithm removes views.
Video 1 - When You Give Your Love to Me 47 Views, 6 Likes
Video 5 Tea for One 34 Views, 4 Likes
Video 7 The Tears of Audrey, 27 Views, 4 Likes
Video 9 All Fall Down, 16 Views, 3 Likes
Video 10 Song for a Dead Friend 21 Views, 3 Likes
Video 11 Kashmir, 20 Views, 4 Likes
Video 12 Waking the Sun, 27 Views, 3 Likes
Video 13 Until I Get Her Back, 36 Views, 5 Likes
Video 14 Miss Broadway + Big Heart 17 Views, 3 Likes
Friday, April 5, 2024
Modern Progressive Art Rock SLIDE SHOWS update...
Instead of trying to make a super long involved and edited documentary series of videos about the history of
Modern Progressive Art Rock
which I intend to try to do
I may be able to sooner, make some slide shows which will hopefully take a fraction of the time.
I love and feel it's worth the time/effort, I could be making the slide shows 1st and then do the longer narrative with more images later.
and here's a bone I suppose
Slide Shows showing Chronologically with Release Dates:
-Chapter 1: Pre-2000 which is ballooning to be dozens of albums somehow, lol. But the amount of work doing slide shows seems to be quite less
-Chapter 2: 2000-2004
-Chapter 3: 2005-2009
-Chapter 4: 2010-2014
-Chapter 5: 2015-2019
-Chapter 6: 2020-2024
The biggest thing right now beyond the labor of creating the slide shows with the images including the dates is trying to include some kind of MUSIC.
I want and intend to do narrating over them, but that more likely will be done for the longer story of these.
These are just like a short form doc, and the biggies will be later.
Unsure, it may be based on how much time I have to put into it and how impatient I get. But testing some of the slide shows last night definitely has boosted my motivation even more for this project.
And who knows, if these go well, I could start making these in more regularity about any number of music or entertainment topics.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Rebranding or New Branding on YouTube?
This idea has crossed my mind several times recently, and even come to think about it, going back many years.
And it was suggested to me by someone on reddit.
Creating a new channel with a new name, or maybe multiple new channels with new names.
I mean it would mean having to notify all the stuff on Social Media about the changes/new channels, etc, but at this point, what am I really losing?
I probably would keep all the Social Media accounts, but change the names.
If I do this, when? I could do it soon, or I could at least wait until a few things happen
a) Finish the THUD tracks videos, which is almost done
b) Finish the AOTY Series of Videos, which unfortunately could be many months. However I suppose I could either
1) resume those on the new channel
2) kind of skip doing videos for each year, and just publish the lists in here and maybe link or even make 1 video showing the link.
Launch the new channel and my hope would be to put something up about the MPAR slide show thing I've been working on
Launch another channel with the Movies of the Year stuff and my Favorite Movies List
NAMES?..unsure, but I'm brainstorming
more to add later..
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Bullshit YouTube View Count
Fuck You YouTube.
Someone at YouTube screws around with this, or they update the algorithm to subtract/deduct/reduce Views that are done by Bots or something. Lovely.
now it say 3 Views again. Again, WHAT. THE. FUCK. YOUTUBE?
Part of me at this point hopes nobody ever watches these videos per than I would have 0 expectation.
BOT Views?..fuck
2 FUCKING VIEWS!!!! REALLY YOUTUBE??? You and your highly flawed Algorithm that falsely removes View numbers go can go fuck yourself!
"No Views" 20 hours later. Yeah..I myself viewed it 3 times on 3 different browsers and YouTube accounts.
BROKEN RECORD....
Monday, March 25, 2024
How Great was 1985 for Movies?
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
YouTube Channel Plans as of 3/20/24
-Finish Kevin Gilbert THUD Tracks Videos;
-All Fall Down
-Song for a Dead Friend
-Kashmir
-Waking the Sun
-Until I Get Her Back
-Extras; Big Heart + Miss Broadway
-Finish Albums of the Year Series
1985-2022 or 2023?
-Minnesota Prog/Art Rock List Video
-Bands/Artists I don't like video(s)
-Continue doing Album Milestone Anniversary Videos (April-December, 9 videos)
-Continue doing 2024 Album Release Calendar Update videos. How many? 5-30?
-Movie Review Videos
-Top 10-50+ Movies of all Time Video(s)
-Movies of the Year Videos once Albums of the Year videos are done
1970? - through 2023? maybe more, depends.
epic list. Unsure how far I will go back, but I would anticipate it being similar to the AOTY videos.
-Random catalog Release Videos..maybe SHORTS for TIKTOK and/or YouTube?
once AOTY Videos are done...2000+ per unlimited really
-React to Top 10 Spotify videos?
-React to ProgArchives names included or missing videos?
-MPAR Slide Show w Voice documentary
..once the AOTY videos are done, this could be a focus. It also will likely be a long, epic amount of work. However, some testing, early examples may be worth sharing aka A Rough Draft sample, etc. More/new equipment? also just using software more extensively
-Psych movies Podcasts on PsychicCrapfest with John
Videos instead of Audio Podcasts, time permitting of course on the Psych Podcast YouTube Channel
-Concert and Event reviews Videos
-Record Store Day Video
-Vinyl/Music Collection Update Videos
Monday, March 11, 2024
10 Years on YouTube Stream Today NOON (Central)
I likely will not go over all of the lists in the Stream per time, which suggests I'll make at least 1 separate video with some of the stuff I don't get to.
Oh, and I lost another Subscriber last night, lol. I tell ya..I wish I could get rid of the Subscriber numbers altogether.
Friday, March 8, 2024
The Monkees ROCK HALL SNUB and REDDIT
Reddit Reddit Reddit....
Biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs
it seemed to be a pretty good twitter alternative the last few months especially, and I joined the Rock Hall subreddit around the time of the nominations were announced.
But, I make 1 comment about how The Monkees are more FAMOUS than every name included there, and 3 or 4 replied to me proved to be a fine waste of time.
The people who replied clearly are not well informed on The Monkees history and importance. I would guess they are younger and less versed in just pop music that is from The Monkees era or even just pre-90's. Or maybe more so, just not well versed how far reaching and KNOWN The Monkees are among musicians and pop-culture.
But we've seen this how many times?.."they were just a TV Show..fake band..they didn't write their own songs or play on their albums"
ignorantly uninformed bullshit from countless people.
odd how the 1 reply stated The White Stripes and Outkast, the Nomination Committee member Alan Light, who was just on that podcast Who Cares About the Rock Hall? stated those were the 2 names he brings to the committee every year.
Is the user on Reddit, Alan Light?..doubt it, but that's odd. as a side note, given how long he's been on the NomCom and what I got from listening to about 1/2 of that podcast, he needs to be removed per Term Limits.
but this video on YouTube discusses this very point about The Monkees influence, which objectively cannot be argued. Those people on Reddit are plain and simply ignorant and uninformed. And while I don't know if there's value in trying to argue with them any more at this point, it does reiterate a larger issue, even beyond just their egregious lack of recognition in the Rock Hall. It illustrates a huge problem with the culture and their ignorance of The Monkees in the history of music and pop culture, the fact they are not even known beyond the show and not thought of to be considered for the Rock Hall.
They don't deserve to be Leif Erickson..but the way history has gone, in 10 or 50+ years, they sadly could be undeservedly. The Rock Hall might not fully change that, but it could help to some degree.
And it would be funny, if they were put in even for Musical Excellence..some crow might be consumed by those uninformed redditors.
Rules
3. Please be civil if discussing who ought to be inducted as to who is already.
Coming from a lunatic who says "THE MONKEES ARE MORE FAMOUS THAN THE LISTED ARTISTS". Gosh no wonder why your fandom is so insanely stupid.
the rules seem to be followed well here, lol (regardless of the fact it's coming from the Creator of the topic).
I decided to instead of replying, to report that. I would question whether much happens given 2 of the other replies were from the Moderators. But this person clearly resorted to name calling and personally attacking me.
But if I had to guess, 1 of 3 things will occur.
-it'll get ignored
-1 of the moderators will contact me about it, unsure how supportive they'll be
-they will remove me from the subreddit, which will speak to how poorly run it is, but at the same time, it would probably be best to avoid anyway.
edit: it looks like the comment was removed. Which is nice, however, the damage is kind of done, so I don't fathom chiming in anytime soon beyond someone bringing up Marillion or Dream Theater, lol.
Also, the 3 links I replied with were hardly "old" from 2021, 2020 and 2018, lol. There are newer posts, discussions, and articles than those, I just was providing a few examples.
Here's just a preliminary list of artists that have cited, covered, or had songs very clearly influenced by The Monkees.
U2
REM
Squeeze
XTC
Smash Mouth
Death Cab For Cutie/Ben Gibbard
Fountains of Wayne
The Sex Pistols
Nirvana
Metallica
The Ramones
The Rembrandts
CCR
Elvis Costello
Rush
Toy Matinee
Bruce Springsteen
They Might Be Giants
Rogue Wave
Incubus
Green Day
Twisted Sister
The Bangles
Frank Zappa
Weezer
Run DMC
Linda Rondstadt
Neko Case
Nickel Creek
Lambchop
Shawn Colvin
Oasis
Ann Murray
Kevin Gilbert - Bio
I've shared this before, but I forget when. Regardless, there's some stuff I want to write or even film on YouTube about this soon. I will try to, but for now, here it is again,
”My name is Kevin Gilbert. My album is called Thud. I was born with a piece of J.C. Penny stainless steel flatware in my mouth, and I scratched and clawed my way out of the upper middle class ghetto of San Mateo, California to become the feared yet loved pariah that I am today. I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling buildings and crushing ice. I write award-winning operas and translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I can cook two-minute eggs in less than a minute. I have been known to remodel subway stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat dispersion. Occasionally, I trade ribald jests with heads of state.
I have written number-one singles for a friend. I am an expert in glass bricklaying, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Brazil. I breed prize-winning clams. I wrote, produced, and played most of Thud in an overgrown home recording facility which I hand-built with money I earned composing innocuous television scores under an assumed name. I pay my bills on time. I don’t perspire. I think reverb is dishonest but sometimes necessary. I, too, have written and produced material for Madonna, and refused to have sex with her. Using only a hoe and a glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from an attack of ferocious army ants. I read ancient Egyptian manuscripts in the original Sanskrit.
I am an abstract sculptor, a master archer, and a ruthless bookie. I once engineered sessions for Michael Jackson and unknowingly offered him a bite of my hot dog. I own many of Burt Bachrach’s instrumental recordings and periodically annoy the neighbors by playing them at a high volume. I sleep only fifteen minutes a night and do so standing up. It is not true that I performed covert operations for the CIA. I think Peter Gabriel was a brilliant artist until he underwent EST training. I am an unselfish lover, an investor in the Chinese stock market, a rabble-rousing herdboy, and an inspiration for freedom fighters everywhere. My dad was a respected physicist, and I changed my name from Kelvin. Children trust me.
After one listen, I can play any song on several instruments. I do not own a television or a blues record. I was the lead singer and chief songwriter of Toy Matinee. I can make extraordinary four course meals using only a spatula and a toaster oven. I believed in and voted for Clinton. I have performed open heart surgery, and I have spoken to Elvis.
But I have never released a solo record.”
–From a self-composed bio, for a PR packet previous to the release of Thud
1983 AOTY Video
Maybe I just make these and nothing else?..then Songs of the Year? Riffs of the Year? Lyrics of the Year?..lol Foods of the Year? Books of the Year? Pets of the Year? Clothes of the Year?
Thursday, March 7, 2024
YouTube Numbers - Murphy Level Bullshit
7:43PM
is my YouTube channel being monitored or audited?
New policy where YouTube removes INVALID Views?
that video has shown 14 Views for at least 2 days. WTF
I tell ya, it's shit like this that may drive me away from YouTube even sooner.
I know there were 5 thumbs up the other day, and just the 1st day/night/morning it at 1 point said 7 and 9 Views.
But why am I not surprised by this?
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